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Monday, July 4, 2011

India seeks to deepen Indo-Lanka ties

India seeks to deepen Indo-Lanka ties[ Monday, 04 July 2011, 04:24.45 PM GMT +05:30 ]India on Monday sought inputs from individuals and institutions in Sri Lanka to deepen the political and economic relations between the two neighbours following the end of the civil war in the country.

As India expands its activities in Sri Lanka since the end of a three-decade ethnic conflict in May 2009, the Indian High Commission here called on "individuals, institutions and groups to submit proposals aimed at developing India-Sri Lanka relations".

The government of India seeks to enhance the bilateral relationship with Sri Lanka, the High Commission said in release here.

Last year, new Indian consulates were opened in Jaffna, the northern capital and in Hambantota, the deep southern district homebase of the President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

There are many areas of Indian investment in Sri Lanka and also assistance to resettle the Tamil civilians displaced due to the ethnic conflict.

India is also assisting Sri Lanka in reconstruction of its war-ravaged northern region by extending grants to build railway projects.

Indian leaders have sought a "meaningful" devolution package for the minority Tamils to address their political aspirations.

India is taking a keen interest in Colombo's plans to arrive at a political solution acceptable to Tamils but taking a less hands on approach unlike in the late 1980s when it sent its military as part of the 1987 Indo-Lanka accord.

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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Sri Lanka may “gang up” with China and Pakistan against India - CM Jayalalith​a Jayaram

Sri Lanka may “gang up” with China and Pakistan against India - CM Jayalalith​a Jayaram[ Monday, 04 July 2011, 04:14.33 AM GMT +05:30 ]Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha Jeyaram has cautioned the Indian government saying that Sri Lanka may “gang up” with China and Pakistan against India.

In an interview with Times Now television in India, Jayalalitha said that China poses a serious threat to India in many ways and so does Pakistan.

She warned that those two countries may join Nepal and Sri Lanka and "gang up" against India. She also said that she will continue to push the Indian government to act on Sri Lanka.

Jayalalitha recalled that she had already presented two resolutions to the Tamil Nadu Assembly on Sri Lanka, both which were subsequently passed.

One resolution calls for economic sanctions on Sri Lanka and the other for India to regain the Kachchaithivu islands.

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Saturday, July 2, 2011

India release 10 Lankan fishermen

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India release 10 Lankan fishermen July 2, 2011  05:07 pm

Bookmark and Share Sri Lanka Navy assisted in the repatriation of ten Sri Lankan fishermen, who were released from the Indian custody today (July 02).


The fishermen and two fishing boats named �Jaya Isuru� and �Yug Gaya� were handed over to SLN officials by the Indian Coast Guard Ship, ICGS Awaiyyar, at the Indo-Sri Lanka International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) in the seas north of Kankasanthurei.


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Sri Lanka: India adopts a genocidal Army to achieve military integration


India adopts a genocidal Army to achieve military integration[TamilNet, Saturday, 02 July 2011, 05:45 GMT]
As Sri Lanka �successfully� ended its war with the LTTE and India is still fighting �insurgents� in Jammu and Kashmir and the northeast states, India will share more experience with the SL military particularly in tackling �insurgency� and will give more training to SL military in building capacity, particularly in adventure sports and English language, media reports from India said on the first �Army-to-Army� talks between the two militaries that took place from Wednesday to Friday. Both sides have agreed to send their instructors to each other�s military academies. India has allotted more seats for training SL military personnel in its military academies. As Sinhala and Tamil politics are hostile, economic and military integration are the ways for political integration of the entire island with India, is the line of thinking in New Delhi, political observers said.

In the talks that took place in New Delhi, the five-member delegation of Sri Lanka�s genocidal Army was headed by its Military Secretary, Major General H.C.P. Goonetilleke and the Indian military side was led by its Additional Director General for International Cooperation, Major General I.P. Singh.

The SL military currently occupying the country of Eezham Tamils is in full swing in militarising the territory, terrorising the population, carrying out demographic changes and committing structural genocide. Extermination of the historical nation of Eezham Tamils in the island is the agenda.

Besides, under the Rajapaksa regime, the SL military also imperceptibly militarises the entire island, paving way for a camouflaged military dictatorship.

The powers that called Sri Lanka a �democratically elected government� to abet its genocidal war now openly or secretly recognize the militarized regime and compete in influencing the military for their strategic benefits.

Media reports from Colombo say that the former SL Army Commander Sarath Fonseka, who led the Army�s genocidal war, was later arrested by Mr. Rajapaksa on the advice of Indian intelligence that Fonseka would use his popularity to stage a military coup. Media reports also imply that Fonseka had the backing of the US.

The �Army-to-Army� talk India initiates now with Sri Lanka � a special relations India has with only 9 other countries � is in this context a recognition to the importance of military in the island or indirect recognition of the military rule in the island, political observers say.

Diplomats in Colombo say that India will object to any international solution to the national crisis in the island.

Indian diplomacy was always a failure in the case of the island.

As a result, the public politics both among the Sinhalese and Eezham Tamils are hostile to New Delhi. Any solution India could think of is less likely to make one or both of them reconcile with India.

Therefore the line of thinking in New Delhi is not political, but rather economic and military.

Economic integration and military integration would eventually bring in political integration of the entire island with India and the national question would be buried under that, is the thinking.

To execute the thinking New Delhi is now adopting an Army that has been internationally exposed of its genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The Assembly in Tamil Nadu has resolved to investigate the war crimes committed with the intention of genocide.

In this respect the New Delhi thinkers go against the polity of their own people. People of India have to decide how good it is for them in the long run to allow military line of thinking to overtake politics.

Both the Indian and Sri Lankan militaries have committed serious war crimes against the Eezham Tamils in the war on the national question in the island.

The term Sri Lanka Army is a misnomer. If any one thinks that Sri Lanka means the entire island, then the Army that exists there is not a Sri Lanka Army but a Sinhala Army.

Both the Indian Army and the Sinhala Army are now talking over the military vacuum of Tamils.

All their cordiality, sharing experience and capacity building take place over this vacuum and that don�t signal any solution to the genocide and national question of Eezham Tamils.

Is there a message New Delhi conveys to Tamils in general?

An Indian intelligence-sent spokesperson said in London sometimes back to count India out in Eezham Tamils seeking their independence.

To what extent politics could compensate the military vacuum in facing a power that got its independence through Gandhian movement is a challenge left to the Eezham Tamils and Tamils in general.

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Thursday, June 30, 2011

India, Lanka hold first Army-to-Ar​my staff talks

India, Lanka hold first Army-to-Ar​my staff talks[ Thursday, 30 June 2011, 07:59.17 AM GMT +05:30 ]India and Sri Lanka began their first Army-to-Army staff talks on Wednesday to bolster bilateral military cooperation with joint exercises and training programmes.

The three-day talks, led by Sri Lankan military secretary Major-General HCP Goonetilleke and Indian Army's additional director general (international cooperation) Major-General I P Singh, will chalk out the programmes to be undertaken by the two armies over the next one year.

"Such interactions will result in a more robust and pragmatic defence cooperation," said an official. India over the last several years has trained thousands of Sri Lankan personnel at its military institutions ranging from Counter-Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School at Vairengte (Mizoram) to School of Artillery at Devlali (Maharashtra), apart from providing specialized naval courses in gunnery, navigation, communication and anti-submarine warfare.

The importance of the talks can be gauged from the fact that India has similar staff talks with only nine other countries, namely US, UK, Israel, France, Japan, Australia, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Singapore.
 

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Bookmark and Share India and Sri Lanka began their first Army-to-Army staff talks to bolster bilateral military cooperation with joint exercises and training programmes.


The three-day talks, led by Sri Lankan military secretary Major-General HCP Goonetilleke and Indian Army�s additional director general (international cooperation) Major-General I P Singh, will chalk out the programmes to be undertaken by the two armies over the next one year.


�Such interactions will result in a more robust and pragmatic defence cooperation,� said an official. India over the last several years has trained thousands of Sri Lankan personnel at its military institutions ranging from Counter-Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School at Vairengte (Mizoram) to School of Artillery at Devlali (Maharashtra), apart from providing specialized naval courses in gunnery, navigation, communication and anti-submarine warfare.


The importance of the talks can be gauged from the fact that India has similar staff talks with only nine other countries, namely US, UK, Israel, France, Japan, Australia, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Singapore, Times of India reports.